gloss, n.
(glosses)
(glosses)
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
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color colour gloss semblance
sample sentences
"he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity""he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"
"the situation soon took on a different color"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
the property of being smooth and shiny
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burnish gloss glossiness polish
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
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gloss glossary
an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
<noun.communication>
gloss rubric
semantic pointers
hypernym